The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . d she taught me the art of enchantment: I have com-mitted its rules to memory, and know it thoroughly, being acquaintedwith a hundred and seventy modes of performing it, by the least ofwhich I could transport the stones of thy city beyond Mount Kaf, andmake its site to be an abyss of the sea, and convert its inhabitantsinto fish in the midst of it.—I conjure thee, then, by the name ofAllah, said her father, to restore this young man, that I may makehim my Wezeer. Is it possible that thou p
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . d she taught me the art of enchantment: I have com-mitted its rules to memory, and know it thoroughly, being acquaintedwith a hundred and seventy modes of performing it, by the least ofwhich I could transport the stones of thy city beyond Mount Kaf, andmake its site to be an abyss of the sea, and convert its inhabitantsinto fish in the midst of it.—I conjure thee, then, by the name ofAllah, said her father, to restore this young man, that I may makehim my Wezeer. Is it possible that thou possessedst this excellence,and I knew it not ? Restore him, that I may make him my Wezeer,for he is a polite and intelligent youth. She replied, With pleasure :—and, taking a knife upon whichwere engraved some Hebrew names, marked with it a circle in themidst of the palace. Within this she wrote certain names and talis-mans, and then she pronounced invocations, and uttered unintelligiblewords; and soon the palace around us became immersed in gloom to lot; THE STORY OF THE SECOND IiOYAD
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